Been through a few rigs over the years: SWR SM900 head with Goliath Snr cab: awesome power that I could never use, and couldn't quite get the vintage vibe I was looking for Traynor YBA 200 all valve head with YBX1510 cab: awesome vintage tone and more than enough power, but a heavy rig to shift, los...

Charlie has a lot to answer for, he sold me my Rickenbacker in 1981, and I've never been able to play a cheap bass since (which I told him when I was down in Christchurch last year, and we both had a good laugh)

I haven't heard of a Lightwave pickup system either. Is it a piezo/preamp thing? Yeah, most peoples reaction is WTF???? There's a lot of tech info on their site, but the over simplfified description is to think of the brigde as the mouse on your computor, when you turn it over you'll see the light ...

I'd been playing guitar for quite a few years but wasn't good enough to get gigs as a lead player, then I found out there were no available bass players in Christchurch (were talking late '70's here), so I traded the guitar on a bass at CJ' music shop, and had my first gig 1 week later, and haven't ...

I've had a lot of basses over the years including Ibanez, Yamaha, Rickenbacker, Pedulla, Lakland and many more. Just before Christmas last year I decided that my Lakland 5 string bass was too heavy for my ageing back and started looking for a lighter weight option. I'd been fasinated with the Lightw...

Just dropped in to say hi, I'm a long time bass player (30+ years), and have played in stage, tv, recording and touring situations around NZ over the years. These days I'm using Lightwave basses (http://lightwave-systems.com/) with a VL 5 string fretted and a VL 5 fretless. Awesome instruments which...